A groundbreaking study suggests that the famous Cambrian explosion—the dramatic burst of diverse animal life—might have actually started millions of years earlier than we thought. By analyzing ancient ...

The Cambrian explosion was an extraordinary phenomenon in the evolution of life on the planet that led to the emergence of ...

A new study of ancient fossil trails pushes the origins of complex life deeper into Earth’s history, before the Cambrian Period began.

Fossils are so common in Pennsylvania Bluestone that Glass often points out prehistoric plant fragments and ancient tide ...

New fossil evidence suggests the Cambrian Explosion, once thought to have occurred 530 million years ago, may have begun 15 ...

At its June commission meeting, the Great Outdoors Colorado board approved six unique projects for funding through the CPW ...

A high school teacher from Oneonta, Ashley Allen, has made a significant archaeological discovery in Walker County, Alabama, that is drawing int ...

The world's largest-known dinosaur mating display area may have been found hiding in plain site at Colorado's Dinosaur Ridge site. Once a tidal flat, this region would have been periodically flooded ...

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

Researchers examine a 500-million-year-old fossil from Morocco and find out that echinoderms went from bilateral to pentaradial symmetry.

It turns out this state we’re in is a hotspot for ancient fossils! With just a sifter, a trowel, and a sense of curiosity, ...

The Cambrian explosion was an extraordinary phenomenon in the evolution of life on the planet that led to the emergence of ...